In yet another attempt to provoke India ahead of the two-day foreign secretary level talks between the two countries, Pakistan’s foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Tuesday met Kashmiri separatist

In yet another attempt to provoke India ahead of the two-day foreign secretary level talks between the two nations, Pakistan’s foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Tuesday met Kashmiri separatist l

The BJP, realising the futility of fielding a presidential candidate of its own given the growing support for the prospective candidature of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, is toying with the idea of bargaining for the vice-president’s post with the Congress in return for supporting the veteran Congress leader for Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The BJP is toying with the idea of bargaining for the vice-president’s post with the Congress in return for supporting Pranab Mukherjee veteran Congress leader for Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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With signs of Congress veteran and Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee occupying the Rashtrapati Bhavan, next, becoming increasingly clear, DMK party treasurer and heir-apparent M.K.

DMK heir-apparent M.K. Stalin met, on Wednesday night, 2G scam accused A. Raja, who was earlier in the day allowed by a CBI special court to visit his home state Tamil Nadu for three weeks.

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The decks for V.S. Sampath to take over as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) were cleared by the government with President Pratibha Patil affixing her assent to the concerned file.

There are serious differences among Bharatiya Janata Party leaders over the strategy to be adopted for the presidential elections, it has been reliably learnt.

With former Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss of the PMK having been chargesheeted in a medical college case, Tamil Nadu MPs cutting across party lines assert the broad contours of an alliance in the state for the 2014 General Elections have emerged. The consensual opinion is that the PMK now has no choice but to fight the elections in the company of the Congress.

With India voting in favour of a US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva at the instance of Tamil parties, the stage is now set for all the Tamil political outfits to claim credit for forcing the hands of the UPA government. In an apparent bid to garner all the commendation, DMK is seriously toying with the idea of conducting a rally to celebrate the passage of the resolution.